II. Requirements for the English Major: Writing Arts 27 hours + 9 hours major core = 36 hours Requirements for a Minor in English

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1 BUSI 2301 Business Communications COMM 4340 Topics in Journalism Writing and Editing ENGL 3393 Introduction to Technical Writing ENGL 2306 Literature for Children and Adolescents ENGL 4353 Special Topics in Literary and Writing Arts (may be offered as a service practicum for internship) ENGL 3323 Teaching Writing (required for secondary education certification) ENGL 3363 Advanced Rhetoric and Argumentation Any English Topics course, different topic Any course from the other concentration (for Literary Arts majors) II. Requirements for the English Major: Writing Arts 3 hours ENGL 1304 Introduction to Creative Writing 3 hours ENGL 3310 Topics in U.S. Literature OR ENGL 3380 Topics in World Literature OR ENGL 3340 Topics in English Literature OR ENGL 4373 African American Literature 9 hours ENGL 3327 Topics in Creative Writing (three different topics/genres) 3 hours ENGL 3333 Layout and Design 3 hours ENGL 3393 Technical Writing OR ENGL 3323 Teaching Writing OR ENGL 3363 Advanced Rhetoric and Argumentation 3 hours ENGL 2353 Professional Writing Technologies 3 hours ENGL 4301 Editing the Magazine 27 hours + 9 hours major core = 36 hours Requirements for a Minor in English Students pursuing a Minor in English must complete at least 18 semester hours of coursework. 3 hours English 3303 Language and Culture or English 4303 Modern Critical Theory 3 hours English 4373 African American Literature 6 hours upper-division writing courses: ENGL 3353 Advanced Composition or ENGL 3327 Topics in Creative Writing or ENGL 3393 Technical Writing or ENGL 3363 Advanced Rhetoric and Argumentation or Teaching Writing 6 hours upper-division literature courses: ENGL 3340 Topics in English Literatures or ENGL 3310 Topics in U.S. Literature or ENGL 3380 Topics in World Literature Requirements for a Minor in Professional Writing Students pursuing a Minor in Professional Writing must complete at least 18 semester hours of coursework. 3 hours ENGL 3353 Advanced Composition (or approved substitute for English majors) 3 hours ENGL 3393 Technical Writing Huston-Tillotson University Bulletin: Volume VI Page 91

2 3 hours ENGL 3327 Topics in Creative Writing 9 hours approved electives: BUSI 2301 Business Communications COMM 4340 Topics in Journalism Writing and Editing ENGL 3327 Topics in Creative Writing, different topic if taken for major COSC 1324 Web Site Design and Maintenance ENGL 4353 when special topic is in Writing (requires approval of the English advisor) ENGL 2353 Professional Writing Technologies ENGL 3323 Teaching Writing ENGL 3363 Advanced Rhetoric and Argumentation Huston-Tillotson University Bulletin: Volume VI Page 92

3 A SUGGESTED COURSE SEQUENCE FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR LITERARY ARTS YEAR 1 UNIV 1201 or Freshman Seminar 2 COMM 1315 Public Speaking 3 RAMS 1201 ENGL 1302 College Rhetoric and 3 ENGL 1301 Introduction to College 3 Composition Composition Behavioral Science Core 3 MATH 1314 College Algebra 3 COSC 1300 Introduction to 3 Fine Arts Core 3 Computers 3 Language I 3 Language II KINE 1100/1101 Personal Fitness or Sport 1 Total Hours 15 Total Hours 15 YEAR 2 ENGL 2304, 2326, Literature 3 ENGL 2304, 2326, Literature 2331, or , or 2341, 3 Ethics Core 3 ENGL Elective 3 Science I 4 PSCI 1301 or 1302 U.S. or Texas 3 HIST US History I or II Government KINE 1304 Health and Wellness 3 Science II 4 3 Elective 3 Total Hours 16 Total Hours 16 YEAR 3 ENGL 3380 Topics in World Literature 3 ENGL 3310 Topics in U.S. Literature 3 ENGL 3353 Advanced Composition 3 ENGL 3327 Topics in Creative Writing 3 ENGL 3303 Language and Culture 3 ENGL 3340 Topics in English 3 ENGL Elective 3 Literature Elective or Minor 3 Elective or Minor 3 Elective or Minor 3 Total Hours 15 Total Hours 15 YEAR 4 ENGL 4393 Senior Seminar 3 ENGL Topics Course 3 ENGL 4373 African American Literature 3 Elective or Minor 3 ENGL 4303 Modern Critical Theory 3 ENGL Elective or Minor 3 ENGL Elective or Minor 3 ENGL Elective or Minor 3 ENGL Elective or Minor 3 Total Hours 15 Total Hours 12 English majors are required to take 6 hours of sophomore literature (English 2331, 2326, 2304, or 2341). ENGL 3353, ENGL 3303, and ENGL 4373 are offered annually. All other upper-level English courses may be offered every other year. Students should take those courses when offered to ensure timely progress through the program. Huston-Tillotson University Bulletin: Volume VI Page 93

4 A SUGGESTED COURSE SEQUENCE FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR WRITING ARTS YEAR 1 UNIV 1201 or Freshman Seminar 2 ENGL 1302 College Rhetoric and 3 RAMS 1201 Composition ENGL 1301 Introduction to College 3 KINE 1304 Dimensions Health and 3 Composition Wellness MATH 1314 College Algebra 3 COSC 1300 Introduction to Computers 3 COMM 1315 Public Speaking 3 Language II 3 KINE 1100/1101 Personal Fitness or Sport 3 Language I 3 3 Total Hours 17 Total Hours 16 YEAR 2 ENGL 2304, Literature 3 ENGL 2326, Literature , 2331, or , 2330, or 2341 HIST 1301 or U.S. History I or II 3 ENGL 2353 Professional Writing Technologies Social Science Core 3 PSCI 1301/1302 US or Texas Government 3 Science I 4 Science II 4 ENGL 1304 Introduction to Creative Writing 3 Ethics Core 3 Total Hours 16 Total Hours 16 YEAR 3 ENGL 3333 Layout and Design 3 ENGL Upper-division Literature 3 ENGL 3353 Advanced Composition 3 ENGL 3327 Topics in Creative Writing 3 ENGL 3303 Language and Culture 3 Elective 3 Minor 3 Minor 3 Minor 3 Minor 3 Total Hours 15 Total Hours 15 YEAR 4 ENGL 3327 Topics in Creative Writing 3 ENGL 3323, Teaching Writing or 3 ENGL 4391 Editing the Magazine , or Advanced Rhetoric and ENGL 4393 Senior Seminar Argumentation or Technical Elective 3 Writing Minor 3 ENGL 3327 Topics in Creative Writing 3 Elective 3 Elective or Minor 3 Total Hours 15 Total Hours 15 COURSES IN ENGLISH (ENGL) ENGL 0311 Bridge Seminar in Writing and Reading3 Credits This seminar course focuses intensive instruction in academic writing and reading skills in preparation for college. Students who complete this seminar with a C or better earn college admission and take placement exams to determine ENGL 3013 or 1301 enrollment. Concurrent enrollment in ENGL 1101 Writing Center Review recommended. Huston-Tillotson University Bulletin: Volume VI Page 94

5 Offered: Fall/Spring Yearly ENGL 0313 Foundations of College Writing and Reading This course helps students develop English skills needed for college writing- and readingintensive courses. It provides students with instruction in reading concepts through analysis, critical thinking, and problem solving and offers intensive practice in writing techniques through sentence, paragraph, and essay structure while integrating cohesion and organization into the composing process. Additionally, students work on grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary while incorporating information from assigned readings as part of writing assignments and class discussion. To pass, students are required to make a grade of C or better. Offered: Fall/Spring Yearly ENGL 0323 Intensive English This is a course for international students who score between 400 and 499 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and who have been admitted to the University conditionally. Beginning with the fluency model or whole-language-acquisition approach and routinely using computers, students rapidly proceed to grammatical refinement; English listening, speaking, and note-taking skills; reading comprehension; and vocabulary building. Thus they strengthen their foundation for University-level academic studies. Offered: As Needed ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102 Writing Center Review 1 Credit Hour This course is designed to reinforce writing skills taught in ENGL 0313 and ENGL 1301 and other writing and writing intensive courses. Concurrent enrollment in ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1101/ENGL 1102 is recommended. Offered: Fall/Spring ENGL 1301 Introduction to College Composition English 1301, the first course in the college composition sequence, helps students develop critical reading skills and a clear and effective writing style appropriate for academic contexts. The course familiarizes students with academic audiences, situations, purposes, genres, and primary conventions of those genres, and introduces students to incorporating sources into their writing. Students develop planning, organizing, and revising skills. This course reviews standard American grammar and usage in the context of student writing and fosters vocabulary acquisition. Major assignments might include personal experience, comparison/contrast, analytical and persuasive essays. Students must earn at least a C to progress to ENGL Prerequisite: Acceptable writing placement test score Offered: Fall/Spring Yearly ENGL 1302 College Rhetoric and Composition The second course in the college composition sequence, English 1302 develops students ability to read analytically and to write clear, logical, rhetorically astute, substantiated arguments appropriate for academic and public discourse. Students learn to use library and information technologies to locate, evaluate and select relevant and authoritative evidence. Effectively incorporating and appropriately documenting sources and understanding the ethics of academic discourse is emphasized. This course helps students further develop an expressive, grammatical and coherent writing style. Major assignments might include definitional, evaluative, ethical, narrative and proposal arguments. Students must pass the writing portion of the THEA while enrolled in this course, unless they have already passed it. Prerequisite: ENG 1301 with a C or better Offered: Fall/Spring Yearly Huston-Tillotson University Bulletin: Volume VI Page 95

6 ENGL 1304 Introduction to Creative Writing An introductory course in writing as an art. Students will learn and practice writing in several creative genres and learn strategies for creation and crafting. Attendance at creative writing events (poetry or fiction, theater or other literary performances) may be required. Offered: Spring/As needed ENGL 1315 Introduction to the Arts This is an introductory study of the visual, literary, dramatic, and musical arts, which includes approaches to understanding the arts and consideration of the roles of artistic expression in human cultures. It includes attendance at live performances, gallery presentations and/or other cultural events. Cross-listed with MUSI Offered: As needed ENGL 2341 Literature Through Film This course offers a comparative look at film and literature in order to examine how the two have increasingly intertwined. English 2341 examines adaptations of literature, the written word, into today s dominant popular visual form, film. Students will read and analyze literature and view and critique film, thereby gaining an understanding of both forms. Offered: Rotates with ENGL 2331, 2326, and 2304 ENGL 2331 World Literature Students in ENGL 2331 study a variety of literary works from the world s cultures. Attention is given to aesthetics, to cultural and historical contexts, including the effects of translation, inscription, and dissemination in the creation of meanings of texts. Study may include comparison of literary texts with other forms of cultural expression. Students learn to examine texts in their cultural, historical, social, and political contexts. Assignments encourage students to develop critical and creative thinking, analytical communications, vocabulary, and research skills. Offered: Rotates with ENGL 2341, 2326, and 2304 ENGL 2326 American Literature This course is a comparative study of American literature in a world context, focusing on diverse U.S. texts and their relationship with world literature. Students will be encouraged to investigate the definition of American, and to situate that definition in a world context, exploring literary and cultural heritages, as well as varied and shared experiences. Study might include such comparisons as African American literature and the literature of Africa and other African diasporas, or Chicano/a literature and Hispanic Caribbean, Spanish, indigenous American and Latin American literature. Focused on American pluralism as manifested in multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic, and transnational literature, this course fosters respect for cultural diversity and understanding of international relations as it develops analytical, communication, critical writing and research skills. Offered: Rotates with ENGL 2341, 2326, and 2304 ENGL 2304 Introduction to African & African American Literature This survey course studies seminal African and African American literary texts of the 16 th -21 st centuries. These works include spirituals, slave narratives, poetry, political arguments, social commentary, sermons, and blues, and jazz and hip hop lyrics. These works contribute in their own way to the rich traditions of African and African American literature. In reading, studying, discussing, and interpreting these works, students develop a greater appreciation of them and their contribution to the United States and the world. In addition to studying these works as literary texts, students look closely at the historical, cultural, social, and political events that influenced Huston-Tillotson University Bulletin: Volume VI Page 96

7 the writers, preachers, musicians, and artists. This course emphasizes writing assignments and class discussion. Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 with C or better Offered: Rotates with ENGL 2341, 2331, and 2326 ENGL 2306 Literature for Children and Adolescents This course is a survey of literature appropriate for younger readers, designed to prepare prospective educators. Assignments encourage an appreciation of the importance of creative writing for children and adolescents. Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 with C or better Offered: As needed ENGL 3303 Language and Culture This course is an introduction to the study of language and its role in culture, which includes study of the historical, social, cultural, technological, and political factors that have influenced the history and diversity of the English language; English as a global language; the influence of language in the construction of social, communal and individual identities; the role of language in relationships; language acquisition studies; language and media; the basics of linguistics and socio-linguistics; and social and political language issues. Offered: Fall ENGL 3310 Topics in U.S. Literature This course focuses on genres, historic periods, or schools of U.S. Literature. Topics vary but may include Hispanic-American Literature, U.S. Women s Literature, Native American Literature, Literature of the U.S. to the Civil War, Twentieth-century U.S. Literature, the U.S. novel, U.S. poetry, etc. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Prerequisite: 2000 level literature course; may take concurrently Offered: Spring ENGL 2353 Professional Writing Technologies In this course, students develop proficiency with technologies of technical and professional writing including digital environments and software applications. Offered: Spring ENGL 3323 Teaching Writing In this writing intensive course, students explore theories, research, and approaches to the teaching of writing. The study considers writing for diverse audiences, purposes and communities, writing processes, writing in collaboration, peer tutoring, and the role of learning differences in the development of writing skills. This course is required for English majors seeking teacher certification. Offered: Spring (May be offered every other year.) ENGL 3333 Layout and Design This production laboratory includes study of visual rhetoric and principles of design, including the use of form, line and color. Students will work with advanced publication technologies. Offered: Fall ENGL 3340 Topics in English Literatures This upper-division course focuses on a region, genre, or historical period of literature in English. Topics vary, but may include Postcolonial Literature in English, Early British Literature (Old English-Restoration), Drama in English, Black British Authors, Irish Literature, Writers of the English Caribbean, etc. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Prerequisite: 2000 level literature course; may take concurrently Offered: Spring Huston-Tillotson University Bulletin: Volume VI Page 97

8 ENGL 3353 Advanced Composition In this advanced writing course, students learn to use the tools of style, revision, rhetoric, and technology. The difference between first draft writing and writing for print or electronic publication is stressed. Students also learn to compose in new media, to consider visual rhetoric, to integrate media and design principles. This course combines theory and practice of research with the study of rhetorical and stylistic approaches to the use of writing conventions and appropriate grammar and usage. Offered: Fall/Yearly Offered: Fall /Yearly ENGL 3363 Advanced Rhetoric and Argumentation This course offers a survey of the history of rhetoric from classical to contemporary and the analysis of significant argumentation, particularly law and politics. The study is sensitive to the historical and cultural contexts in which arguments are produced and received and considers how rhetorical theory and practice change over time. ; Offered: as needed Recommended: ENG 3353 ENGL 3327 Topics in Creative Writing Topics for this literary writing workshop vary, but might be specific genres (poetry, new media, spoken word, short fiction, novel, drama, screenplay, song, creative non-fiction, etc.) or areas of special interest, (travel writing, memoir, nature writing, etc.). Students develop creative and critical thinking skills as they learn to invent, revise and edit creative writing for performance, for print or for online publication. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Offered: Fall/Spring and 2000 level literature course; may be taken concurrently ENGL 3380 Topics in World Literature This is an upper-division comparative literature course focusing on areas such as The Modern African Novel, Caribbean Literature, Literature of the Ancient World, World Folklore, and Literature of Latin America. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (May be offered every other year) Prerequisite: 2000 level literature course; may be taken concurrently Offered: Fall ENGL 3393 Introduction to Technical Writing This course helps students gain understanding, experience, and skill in scientific, technical, and business communication. They learn basic theories of scientific and technical writing and explore how to use logic, arrangement, and style in writing for various scientific and technical audiences. Major writing assignments, class discussions, and other coursework introduce students to principles and contexts of specific types of scientific, technical, and professional documents. Genres might include research proposals, research reports, lab reports, professional resumes, and job application letters. Prerequisite: ENGL 1301 with a C or better; Offered: Yearly Recommended: completion of Advanced Composition. ENGL 4301 Editing the Magazine A course in which students learn through the production of an online and/or print magazine. Students will have hands-on experience reading, analyzing and selecting among writing and art submissions, developing layout and design, preparing the document for publication, marketing the magazine and other aspects of literary publication. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: English 1302 with a C or better Offered: As needed Huston-Tillotson University Bulletin: Volume VI Page 98

9 ENGL 4303 Modern Critical Theory This course is a study of modern critical terms and approaches literary scholars employ to analyze texts, including aesthetic, structural and post-structural, genre, feminist, historicist, critical cultural, and audience response theories. It considers the role of history and political ideologies in the formation of literary texts and canons. (May be offered every other year) Offered: Fall and 2000 level literature course; may be taken concurrently ENGL 4373 African American Literature This is an upper-division course studying literary texts from the 15 th century to the 21 st century written by African Americans in the United States and the African Diaspora. Students will study African American writers depictions and experiences of African Americans in non-fiction and fiction, drama, poetry, sermons, song and folklore. In reading, studying, discussing and interpreting works by African American writers, students will develop a greater appreciation of them and their contributions to the U.S. In addition to studying these works as literary texts, students will look closely at the historical, cultural, social and political events that influenced the writers. Students will also use different critical literary approaches to gain a deeper understanding of these texts as means of production and representation. There is a strong emphasis on writing assignments and class discussion. Prerequisite: 2000 level literature; may be taken concurrently Offered: Fall/Yearly ENGL 4393 Senior Seminar in Literary and Writing Arts A capstone course in English literature and language in which students will write and defend a thesis that allows them to demonstrate knowledge and analytic skills gained over the course of study in the English literary arts or communication arts program and provides them with a polished writing sample for graduate school or job applications. Three faculty readers, one of whom is the primary advisor, will read the senior thesis, which will culminate in an oral presentation delivered to the faculty readers and open to the University community. Prerequisite: Senior standing within the English program; or Offered: Fall advisor approval. ENGL 4353 Special Topics in Literary and Writing Arts This course serves to cover special topics or as a practicum in the area of English, and topics may vary from one semester to the next. May be repeated when topics vary. Prerequisite: Course Instructor approval Offered: As Needed THE BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN HISTORY (HIST) Mission The study of History is an important part of the journey for intellectual development and human understanding. Through a study of History, we cultivate and develop an understanding of the varieties of the human experience. History helps students develop analytical skills to interpret both the past and the present as well as identify trends and explore human existence. History helps students appreciate both the possibilities and the limits of our own age. The History program at Huston-Tillotson University provides students with a global perspective and solid grounding in the methods and fields of History. The History Huston-Tillotson University Bulletin: Volume VI Page 99